Even so, Mr Mahuad, a Christian Democrat and a successful mayor of Quito, can point to some achievements.
But there are some achievements so notable, so ground-shaking, that even within the short space of a few decades we can feel their impact.
However, the assembly can point to some achievements.
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In general, despite some heroic achievements, the relief effort must bear some of the blame for the unfolding disaster.
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There have been some Democratic achievements like raise the minimum wage, do some other things.
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He has racked up some considerable foreign policy achievements as well.
Mr Urban expands his hero's achievements with some first-class descriptions of the campaign and its battles, but he might have done better to have remembered that patient cobbler in Irun and written a book describing the whole intelligence apparatus available to Wellington.
Muhyiddin, who invited Unesco secretary-general Irina Bokova to Kuala Lumpur to sign an MoU to endorse the co-operation during the launch of the first programme under the initiative in June, said some countries had great achievements in universal primary education while others, especially from the sub-Sahara region, were far from the target.
Some of his most acclaimed achievements came in his quest for world stability.
Without criticizing how things have been handled in the past, ask your boss if you might have some opportunities to showcase your achievements.
To lighten the load on its back-end servers, EA turned off some features including leader boards and achievements.
The ceremony too will "focus on the essentials of Britishness" with a procession marking some of the UK's notable achievements and achievers, featuring the aforementioned Beatles and Brunel.
It's going to take some doing to inspire supermarket managers to make comparable achievements.
They are said to celebrate some of Scotland's major and most recognisable engineering achievements and "symbolise solidity, stability and continuity".
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The House Republicans are using a lot of the appropriation bills to cut back on spending in some of the areas that constitute what the administration would consider its achievements to date.
For some, however, it will be a day to reflect on the achievements of Chinese civilization and the wisdom so eloquently expressed in the Chinese language.
The Johannesburg conference gave some 150 participants from 34 African countries the opportunity to reflect on the achievements, debate the challenges and initiate a process for the identification of possible areas of engagement for the remaining three years.
For instance, Xbox Live features a Twitter app, and some consoles games, like Uncharted 2 allow players to broadcast their in-game achievements on their Twitter feeds.
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This is the idea that you can create a point system, levels, achievements and competitions to any kind of activity to encourage people to engage in the activity on some level, or even to compete with each other.
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Despite playing for some of the world's top clubs, Beckham singled out captaining his country as one of his "proudest achievements".
Today we look at these achievements, much as Dark Age peasants looked on the mighty works of the Roman Era, feeling like some golden age has passed when giants walked the Earth.
The achievements of trailblazers like Vasco da Gama, James Cook or Christopher Columbus can never be surpassed, so some might argue that real explorers are a thing of the past... adrenalin junkies with nothing left to search for?
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